Official Nas Thread
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22 Years. Wow. People love to try and hate on "I Am" but in real time it was well received. It remains NaS's biggest 1st week sales and it outsold "Vol 3" first week that year. Only Biggie, Dr. Dre and DMX had higher first week sales than NaS. Plus it got 4 1/2 Mics in the Source. This was also NaS's 3rd #1 LP in a row after "It Was Written" and "The Firm" so he was really moving up commercially. "NaS is Like" and "NYSOM II" still bang to this day. "Hate Me Now" is a staple in NaS's catalog. I always loved "Life is what you make it" with X. Man this album is my sh!t. Sad it was the first album to suffered from digital bootlegging but I will always love this LP. The cover was flames too. "The Lost Tapes" was a gift to us who loved the bootleg so much because we never thought we gets those songs CDQ.
Not to gossip, but I bet you Nas not speaking to him for madd years while with Kelis had something to do with Jungle talking foul about Kelis and Nas not wanting to hear it,
. Dudes get crazy for they woman...I understand love but you can't leave your brother in the hood still movin shyt around and risking his life/freedom. 
That album got so many bars
Yo, yo yo yo
Carolyn, from Maryland, she Lady Heroin
She elegant, her apparel in the M-Class caravan
Love it, that song feels like an audio movie
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Nas Tracks Leaked On Net
Thirteen unreleased tracks by rapper Nas have been posted on the Internet as
MP3 files, apparently without permission. A representative from Columbia Records, for
whom Nas records, could not confirm whether the songs -- which include "Hardest Thing
to Do Is Stay Alive," "Dr. Knockboots Dos and Don'ts" and "Poppa Was a Player" -- are
from Nas' forthcoming album I Am ... The Autobiography. The disc is due out March 30.
Thirteen unreleased tracks by rapper Nas have been posted on the Internet as
MP3 files, apparently without permission. A representative from Columbia Records, for
whom Nas records, could not confirm whether the songs -- which include "Hardest Thing
to Do Is Stay Alive," "Dr. Knockboots Dos and Don'ts" and "Poppa Was a Player" -- are
from Nas' forthcoming album I Am ... The Autobiography. The disc is due out March 30.
T.he I.nformant
1st Ballot HOF Teller
beyond laughable the hate this album get's nobody said shyt when it dropped everybody the hood fukked wit this heavy. If that OG would've dropped 3 straight classic albums in a row
Dudes took Jays words as gospel and ran with the narrative that the album was trash. 4.5 mics in the source no lie
22 Years. Wow. People love to try and hate on "I Am" but in real time it was well received. It remains NaS's biggest 1st week sales and it outsold "Vol 3" first week that year. Only Biggie, Dr. Dre and DMX had higher first week sales than NaS. Plus it got 4 1/2 Mics in the Source. This was also NaS's 3rd #1 LP in a row after "It Was Written" and "The Firm" so he was really moving up commercially. "NaS is Like" and "NYSOM II" still bang to this day. "Hate Me Now" is a staple in NaS's catalog. I always loved "Life is what you make it" with X. Man this album is my sh!t. Sad it was the first album to suffered from digital bootlegging but I will always love this LP. The cover was flames too. "The Lost Tapes" was a gift to us who loved the bootleg so much because we never thought we gets those songs CDQ.
All facts.
I did not like this album at all when it came out. I liked a lot of the bootleg.
But if you go in order were Illmatic, iww, and the firm plus mixtapes.. I heard this and sounded like nas just reading words off a paper. Not much flow plus Nas over those keyboard beats was tough to hear, TO ME. It's also the first time he really used outside producers and starting making songs to sell outside of more than just NY.
I still remember getting the bootleg on the internet the day it came out. It took forever. In general it was an odd time if you like earlier 90's rap. Time were changing fast. I see how you could like it more if you like a lot of the beats. I still think some of the rapping isn't great.
There was an acapella version i remember that came out on vinyl. I remember doing some blend with the verses I liked.
But if you go in order were Illmatic, iww, and the firm plus mixtapes.. I heard this and sounded like nas just reading words off a paper. Not much flow plus Nas over those keyboard beats was tough to hear, TO ME. It's also the first time he really used outside producers and starting making songs to sell outside of more than just NY.
I still remember getting the bootleg on the internet the day it came out. It took forever. In general it was an odd time if you like earlier 90's rap. Time were changing fast. I see how you could like it more if you like a lot of the beats. I still think some of the rapping isn't great.
There was an acapella version i remember that came out on vinyl. I remember doing some blend with the verses I liked.
Nas is the goat off of all these songs alone. Truthfully its not close either.Ain’t this the OG tracklist? Cause if it is....
Disc 1
Disc 2
- Fetus (Belly Button Window)
- NY State Of Mind Pt. II
- Life Is What You Make It
- Small World
- Hardest Thing To Do Is Stay Alive
- Poppa Was a Playa
- Nas Is Like
- Blaze A 50
- Favor For A Favor
- We Will Survive
- Some Of Us Have Angels
- Project Windows
- Day Dreaming, Stay Scheming
- Sometimes I Wonder
- Undying Love
- After Life (Intro)
- Amongst Kings
- Life We Chose
- Drunk By Myself
- Pray
- God Love Us
- Ghetto Prisoners
- Last Words
- Family
- Come Get Me
- Find Your Wealth
- U Gotta Love It
- Wanna Play Rough
- The Rise And Fall
- My Worst Enemy